Let's Get Growing!

Subtitle

'Wild Ideas'Our seasonal blog with some thoughts and inspiration from nature

Best Buddies - Bryan and Vincent

At Minsteracres Peace Garden, our gardening therapy group always enjoy
getting creative with scarecrows. These serve to help keep the birds away from
newly-planted vegetable seedlings and to provide some humorous sculptural
interest in the garden. Winter-time is usually the opportune moment to give the
scarecrows a make-over and this provides a great indoor team activity for cold,
wet days.

The latest addition to our family of scarecrows had been much discussed
through last winter, but finally made it into the garden with his wheelbarrow
in time for the 2018 growing season and has produced much comment from
visitors. Captured here with our trusty grass-cutter, Bryan Green, Vincent, as
he has been nicknamed by our participants (apparently he resembles Vincent van
Gogh) spends his time casually pushing his rusted wheelbarrow across the garden,
looking very suave in his panama hat. From the entrance gate, he is remarkably
life-like and we hope the birds think so too!

A new enterprise this season is a photographic record of the group’s
activities through the seasons of the gardening year and keen photographer and
long-standing participant, Andrew da Costa, has been kept busy taking interesting
shots and editing them for our new album with support from volunteer, Veronica
Bell. Other participants have enjoyed coming up with humorous captions for the
pictures and we look forward to having a vibrant visual record in lieu of the
written diary we have kept in the past. Thank you Andrew for this great shot of
Bryan and Vincent – we’d like to eavesdrop on the craic when no-one’s looking!